Advert for Gold Dust Washing Powder

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Advert for Gold Dust Washing Powder. Wellcome Collection. Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0). Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Advertising material for the Fairbank Company's Gold Dust Washing Powder showing 2 small black boys in a wooden tub on a die cut card (1880s?). Text claims that Gold Dust Washing Powder "cleans everything." The text sells the product to women specifically, noting that it saves a woman "many an hour of worry and makes her housework easy." Reverse of L0069073.

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